ETF comparison
SPHQ vs VIG
Quality Factor vs Dividend.
Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHQ and VIG would leave roughly 28.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIG is 11 bps cheaper than SPHQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for SPHQ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with SPHQ vs VIG.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHQ | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 4.50% | 4.07% | 4.07% |
| 2 | Visa Inc. | 4.68% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 3 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 4.81% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 4 | Caterpillar Inc. | 3.78% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 5 | Mastercard Inc. | 4.32% | 1.84% | 1.84% |
| 6 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 3.54% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 7 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 3.46% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 8 | Lam Research Corp. | 4.09% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 9 | Coca-Cola Co. (The) | 3.33% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 10 | Merck & Co., Inc. | 2.86% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 11 | KLA Corp. | 3.27% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 12 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 2.03% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
Only in SPHQ
54 total- General Electric Co. 4.16%
- GE Vernova Inc. 3.15%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 2.79%
- Western Digital Corp. 2.15%
- TJX Cos., Inc. (The) 1.79%
- AppLovin Corp. 1.56%
- Adobe Inc. 1.44%
- Progressive Corp. (The) 1.40%
- Trane Technologies PLC 1.29%
- Newmont Corp. 1.22%
Only in VIG
286 total- Broadcom Inc 5.18%
- Microsoft Corp 3.97%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.59%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.34%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.90%
- Walmart Inc 2.60%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.49%
- AbbVie Inc 1.68%
- Bank of America Corp 1.57%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.51%
Open SPHQ or VIG at a brokerage
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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